Cassandra Nelson > Quotes

“There is fiction, there is fact, and then there is the truth”
― Cassandra Nelson, A Theology of Fiction

“The bards of antiquity spoke of muses. Perhaps we may speak of the Holy Spirit as the source behind those shimmering moments of indeterminacy in literature... Perhaps the flickers of meaning and transcendence we find in literature are designed to guide us, patiently and at our own pace, toward and encounter with Christ, the Incarnate Word, in whom content and form are perfectly united and through whom all things were made.”
― Cassandra Nelson, A Theology of Fiction

“And in the best Catholic fiction, she saw this heaven come down to earth, glimpses of what it means to see and know and love truly, a trail of breadcrumbs to point the soul home”
― Cassandra Nelson, A Theology of Fiction